ERCOT members voted down the ISO’s attempt to salvage a revision request that would have replaced several ancillary services with new products.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee  continued the debate over who should be responsible for Texas’ largely unused smart meter monitoring website.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee endorsed a recommendation to increase the fuel adder factor for coal- and lignite-fired resources.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee approved staff’s recommendation to add 200 MW of responsive reserve service.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee agreed on a method for paying lost opportunity costs to generators ordered to ramp down for grid reliability.

ERCOT continues to creep closer to the 50% mark for wind penetration, reaching 48.28% of load on March 23. 

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee discussed how the ISO and its market participants exchange data and handle changes to data reports.

A roundup of news from the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee meeting last week.

ERCOT will send state regulators a white paper that outlines potential revisions to its operating reserve demand curve.